Each project supported with grant funds from the Systems Alignment Innovation Hub (SAIH) will examine an innovative systems alignment approach that engages partners from the medical, public health, and social services sectors in collaborative efforts to dismantle structural and systemic racism and improve health equity.

The 18-month intensive planning grants will assist the first cohort of awardees in assessing and improving the feasibility, acceptability, and evaluability of their systems alignment ideas, eventually creating a strong research proposal. SAIH’s team of subject matter experts will support the awardees throughout their 18-month projects with monthly coaching calls, site visits, and a grantees community of practice that will meet for the first six months of the award period. SAIH’s diverse team brings decades of experience contributing to innovative research, public health, social services, medical practices, cross-system alignment, housing justice, racial equity, and Indigenous wisdom, while also bringing lived expertise of homelessness, LGBTQA2S+ issues, mental illness, and substance use disorders.